Jim Daniels
James Raymond Daniels is an American poet and writer.
He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the poet Kristin Kovacic, and their children.Life and work
Since 1981, Daniels has been on the faculty of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English.
The majority of Daniels' papers are held in Michigan State University Libraries .
Daniels' literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series. He won the inaugural Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was educated at Alma College and Bowling Green State University.Works
- Factory Poems, poetry
- On the Line, poetry
- Places/Everyone, poetry
- The Long Ball, poetry
- Digger's Territory, poetry
- Punching Out, poetry
- Hacking It, poetry
- M-80, poetry
- The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry,, a poetry anthology
- Niagara Falls, poetry
- No Pets, screenplay
- Letters to America: Contemporary Poetry on Race, , a poetry anthology
- Blessing the House, poetry
- Brooding the Heartlands, poetry
- No Pets, stories
- Blue Jesus, poetry
- American Poetry: The Next Generation,, a poetry anthology
- Black Vinyl, Red Vinyl, poetry
- Greatest Hits, poems
- Night with Drive-by Shooting Stars, poems
- Digger's Blues, poetry
- Detroit Tales, stories
- Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems, poetry
- Street, poems
- Dumpster, screenplay
- Now Showing, poetry
- Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies, poetry
- Mr. Pleasant, stories
- In Line for the Exterminator, poetry
- From Milltown to Malltown. poems
- Mr. Pleasant. screenplay
- Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, poetry
- Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City. stories
- All of the Above. poetry
- Birth Marks. poetry
- Eight Mile High. stories
- Apology to the Moon, poetry
- The End of Blessings, screenplay
- Rowing Inland, poetry
- Challenges to the Dream: The Best of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards, editor
- Street Calligraphy, poetry
- The Middle Ages, poetry
- The Perp Walk, stories
- R E S P E C T: The Poetry of Detroit Music, co-editor, anthology
